In baseball-mad South Korea groups of professional cheerleaders pumping up gamers and lovers with problematic K-pop workouts are as indispensable to the video games as beer and fried birds. Imported with the aid of American missionaries greater than 100 years ago, baseball is South Korea’s most loved spectator sport, beating out even football. There are no cheerleaders … Read more
US authorities on Wednesday filed federal costs of securities fraud and marketplace manipulation against Bill Hwang, founder of Archegos, the funding fund that imploded last 12 months and caused billions of greenbacks in losses to fundamental banks. The own family-owned hedge fund run by means of Hwang had taken large bets on a few stocks with cash … Read more
North Korea must go back to a “diplomatic course”, the pinnacle US envoy for the country stated Monday, following Pyongyang’s blitz of missile launches and growing signs it’s miles resuming nuclear trying out. North Korea has completed more than a dozen guns tests to this point this yr, the contemporary one over the weekend — … Read more
Seoul: The US envoy to North Korea will meet with South Korean counterparts next week to discuss the international reaction to the North’s recent ICBM launches, the State Department announced. Pyongyang has so far ignored US Special Representative Sung Kim’s overtures, accusing Washington of pursuing hostile policies such as sanctions and military drills. North Korea … Read more
According to a survey, eight out of ten autoworkers in South Korea support prohibiting the sale of gasoline and diesel automobiles by the middle of the next decade. According to a survey issued on Thursday by Greenpeace and the Korean Metal Workers’ Union, more than 82 percent of industrial employees believe vehicles with internal combustion … Read more
The ‘1915 Canakkale Bridge’ in Turkey has now become the world’s longest suspension bridge, spanning two kilometers. It runs from Gelibolu on the European side of Turkey’s northwestern province of Canakkale to Lapseki on the Asian side of the Dardanelles Strait. The bridge allows passengers to cross the Dardanelles, which connects the Aegean Sea and … Read more
CHEONGJU – Cultural hits from Netflix show “Squid Game” to Oscar-winner “Parasite” have raised South Korean inequality to global prominence, and one presidential hopeful claims his working-class credentials make him the best man to fix a broken system. Former child factory worker Lee Jae-myung, a school dropout maimed in an industrial accident as a teen, … Read more
SEOUL – In a crowded campaign office in Seoul, young, trendy staffers are using deepfake technology to try to achieve the near-impossible: make a middle-aged, establishment South Korean presidential candidate cool. Armed with hours of specially-recorded footage of opposition People Power Party candidate Yoon Suk-yeol, the team has created a digital avatar of the frontrunner … Read more
A South Korean mother-daughter duo happily grooves to the Kacha Badam song and shared a video of themselves dancing. on social media a few days ago. In a video, a man named Bhuban Badyakar can be seen singing “Badam Badam Kacha Badam” to encourage customers to buy nuts from him. The song was promoted on … Read more
SEOUL – A man who entered North Korea on New Year’s Day by breaching the heavily fortified border from the South is presumed to be a defector from the North, the defence ministry in Seoul said. The man sparked a search operation by the South Korean military when surveillance equipment spotted him crossing an eastern … Read more
SEOUL: Samsung Electronics expects operating profits for the fourth quarter to soar 52.5 per cent, the South Korean tech giant said in a statement on Friday, spurred by record sales. The world’s biggest smartphone maker forecast 2021 fourth-quarter operating profits at around 13.8 trillion won ($11.5 billion), up from 9.05 trillion won in the same quarter … Read more
SEOUL: South Korean automakers’ global car sale rose last year, owing to export growth that offset weak domestic demand, industry data showed on Monday. The number of vehicles, sold globally by five local automakers that include Hyundai, Kia, GM Korea, Renault Samsung and Ssangyong, was 7.12 million in 2021, up 2.5 per cent from the … Read more
RIYADH: The regulator in Singapore has suspended Bitget, a crypto exchange that got into a fray after promoting the digital currency Army Coin, which is named after the followers of South Korean boy band BTS, Bloomberg reported. Bitget, the sponsor of Italian soccer team Juventus, describes the army coin as a way to provide lifelong financial support … Read more
BEIJING: By coercing foreign chipmakers to surrender their crucial business data, Washington has once again shown the world that the “America first” doctrine is still at the core of the country’s decision-making, and that Washington is willing to do anything to rule the world supreme. In September, the United States sent a seemingly voluntary request … Read more
WASHINGTON: Tesla CEO Elon Musk reported late on Friday that an app problem that was keeping a number of drivers worldwide from using their cars was on the mend after a server issue was resolved. Multiple Tesla drivers tweeted that they were no longer able to start their cars with their phone apps and had … Read more
SEOUL: South Korean automakers’ global car sales logged a double-digit fall in October, owing to the supply disruption of semiconductors, industry data showed on Monday. Five domestic carmakers, including Hyundai, Kia, Renault Samsung, GM Korea and Ssangyong, sold a total of 548,192 vehicles at home and abroad in October, down 22.2 per cent from the … Read more
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics defied the global supply chain challenges to forecast a near-30-percent jump in third-quarter operating profits on Friday. The world’s biggest smartphone maker said it expected its operating profits to reach around 15.8 trillion won ($13.3 billion) in a regulatory filing, up 27.9 percent year-on-year. The company is the flagship subsidiary of the giant Samsung group, by far … Read more
The latest Samsung Exynos chipset 2100 was recently reported to compete with Snapdragon’s 888 now, new Geekbench benchmarks have revealed that this is actually the case as it outperforms the latter’s unreleased flagship processor in multi-core tests. As per reports, Samsung recently shared a screenshot of a Geekbench test. In this benchmark, the Exynos 2100 SoC undergoes … Read more
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi briefed his Saudi counterpart Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf about grave situation in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In a telephonic conversation with Saudi Shah Mahmood Qureshi apprised Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf about India’s unilateral actions in occupied Kashmir. FM said Occupied Jammu and Kashmir is under curfew for the … Read more
